Remember when you used to jumble up all your LEGO playsets and make your own pretend cross-franchise stories? They are making that into a movie.

LEGO has been taking on the world these days, from its humble beginnings as a building block, to licensed franchises, to videogames, to robots, there are few mediums that the bricks have yet to grace. Warner Bros. has announced the next logical step in LEGO's worldwide domination: The LEGO Movie.

The trailer starts out with unlikely hero Emmett, not knowing entirely what's going on. Luckily, Morgan Freeman as a wizard is here to give us some exposition in the way only Morgan Freeman can. "My fellow master builders, including but not limited to, Superman, Wonderwoman, the Mermaid, Green Ninja, 1980-something Space Guy, Michelangelo, Michelangelo and the 2002 NBA All-Stars. We have learned that Lord Business plans to end the world as we know it."

The movie seriously looks like it was plucked right from my twelve year old self's imagination, featuring Emmett interacting with characters plucked from all corners of the LEGO world. It's a cross-franchise extravaganza that is of course littered with the various Warner Bros. franchises that have received the LEGO treatment over the years. "Can you make one of these in orange?" Emmett asks LEGO Batman, "I only work in black," he replies, "and sometimes very, very dark gray."

The all-star cast includes Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson and of course Morgan Freeman.

Sure they've got the ghost, the shark, the space guy, the medieval guys, superheroes, robin hood, cowboys, indians, modern city guys, ninjas.... but I didn't see a single pirate in the group. Where the hell are the pirate legos?!

You know... I think this'll be a decent film, but I really wish they weren't trying to mimic stop-motion animation with CGI. It just looks like they animated the trailer and took out every third frame or something.

the only thing I am apprehensive about is Will Ferrell being in it, I hate that man as an actor, almost all of his stuff is "Massively stupid yet inexplicably famous/wealthy/ well liked guy" gets put into a weird situation and everybody in the film glories him except for the villain or some random character who points out Will's character is a jackass man-child

Chessrook44:Sure they've got the ghost, the shark, the space guy, the medieval guys, superheroes, robin hood, cowboys, indians, modern city guys, ninjas.... but I didn't see a single pirate in the group. Where the hell are the pirate legos?!

Possibility 1) There's only so much they can show in a single trailer, and Pirates seemed superfluous with all the other characters they've shown.2) There's only so much Lego they can fit into a single movie, and Pirates either only get a short bit not worth showing or nothing at all.3) The parts that include Pirates aren't quite finished yet.

Treaos Serrare:the only thing I am apprehensive about is Will Ferrell being in it, I hate that man as an actor, almost all of his stuff is "Massively stupid yet inexplicably famous/wealthy/ well liked guy" gets put into a weird situation and everybody in the film glories him except for the villain or some random character who points out Will's character is a jackass man-child

I think Will's character in the movie is the villain. I'm pretty sure he plays the "Lord Business" character they mention in the trailer that wants to destroy the world as they know it.

Chessrook44:Sure they've got the ghost, the shark, the space guy, the medieval guys, superheroes, robin hood, cowboys, indians, modern city guys, ninjas.... but I didn't see a single pirate in the group. Where the hell are the pirate legos?!

Well there must be some, because someone throws a shark at Emmet. I mean, that might be the mermaid, sure, but there's still hope

We should all start naming off what series of Lego we want to see in this, or get cameos of. While I enjoy the Batman, Superman (prolly star wars)...alla all the big name titles. As a traditional LEGO fan I want to see some of the vintage sets...somewhere.

Dat stop motion? I'm generally surprised it's not entirely CGI. Christ, I haven't seen anything stop motion (That was good) since Wallace & Gromit. And not that film that came out a couple of years ago.

Reaper195:Dat stop motion? I'm generally surprised it's not entirely CGI. Christ, I haven't seen anything stop motion (That was good) since Wallace & Gromit. And not that film that came out a couple of years ago.